Think Outside The Cigarette Box And Inside the Fare One
On Tuesday, the Weekly's Joe Eskenazi made a kickass point about Mayor Newsom's proposal to tack a 33 cent per pack surcharge to SF...
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Greg Dewar said:
May 22, 2009 5:48 PM
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Joe has a point about the silliness of this cigarette non tax, it's typical SF feel good legislation that has no basis in reality.
However, turnabout is fair play. MUNI needs to send "work orders" to the SF Giants, the SF 49ers, Outside Lands Music Festival, Bay to Breakers, and hell ANY event that requires "lots of muni support." If it's good enough for Fake Green Gavin, it's good for MUNI.
Of course, this kind of policy making is inherently stupid and counter productive. As that is SOP in SF, then it's time for the "when in Rome" policymaking to begin.